Ugh, the insomnia is kicking up again. Then when I finally do get to sleep, I dream about having insomnia.
Oh, jesus, that’s a unique level of hell. makes soothing white-noise sounds
Oh noooo!! I got shingles about a month ago and it’s still bothering me, though not as bad as it used to. Fortunately it was just wrapped around my ribs. I feel for you!
This is really helpful - thank you!
I’m honestly just tired of buying shit for people I know they won’t use just because that’s what you’re supposed to do. Yes, that’s my problem (the idea that everyone else is; so should I), but holy shit, if I get asked one more time what I’m buying for my kid’s 4th and 8th grade teachers or the mailman or the trash guy I’m going to shit a goddamn brick.
What’s particularly awful on my part is that it’s not necessarily that I can’t afford it, but after trying to be thoughtful for my family, my friends and employees, the last thing I want to have to do is expend additional mental energy to figure out what someone I’ve met maybe once will like.
Another rant…I really hate what I do. I hate managing a team because some are needy as fuck. A group of professionals, some older than I am (and I’m 44) a few who’ve been in their jobs almost 10 years and they still feel like they need my permission to add a field to a goddamn report that they use to monitor their products? Just add the fucking thing if it makes it easier.
Also, one of my teammates is dealing with a mental illness, which had been affecting their work. When they finally told me what was going on, we were able to try different accommodations and this person is now doing amazingly well, but I’ve tied myself into a giant goddamn pretzel with the coaching I requested from HR to help us both figure it out. Now I just want to crawl into a hole until the next quarter because having employees is a shitload more like parenting than I’d like to admit. Maybe I just hate being an adult. Yeah, that’s probably it.
OMG, I think my life is some sort of reality simulation. I’m the victim of freaking ELECTION FRAUD
Because we are now getting complaints about the election. Because I was away in the two week run up. And someone went door to door telling people I had decided not to run, and collected proxies that would’ve gone to me. They claimed they were acting with my permission.
So now there will be an …investigation … allegations of sore loser, I wonder when they’ll start callling me Hillary
I did not find this out until after the election. I don’t know how many people complained, although it was at least two. And, even though this is a little vague at this point, it seems that the misrepresentation that I did not intend to seek re-election was kind of material to their whole campaign.
Which pisses me off, because I supported their right to organize this campaign and I did not spy or interfere in anyway.
When my fellow incumbent board members complained, I told them that it was the absolute right of the shareholders to try to remove us if they were unhappy and that their response should be to do a better job.
MOTHERFUCKER, THE LAST THING IN THE WORLD I NEED RIGHT NOW IS FOR MY LIFE TO BECOME A MICROCOSM OF CNN. Maybe moral leadership really does start at the top.
But this is going to be loud and messy and everyone is already at each other’s throats. And I have mixed feelings, part of me wants to tell them to brush it under the rug, I don’t care. I just want NOT to deal with it.
But I don’t like being cheated. And, I’ll admit it - I love the politicking, the deal-making, the strategizing, the hand-shaking and socializing. I feel that I’m in my element when I’m doing that stuff.
I’ve spent the last two days flip-flopping between my Zen master mode and my Dirty Harry revenge mode. My head hurts,
Hey universe—-*****Election fraud? ***** Really?
Anyone else picturing Mr. Seinfeld losing the presidency of Del Boca Vista?
He was accused unjustly, too, come to think of it…
I’ve had it in the same place, an 8-inch diameter area, wrapped around my right ribs. Shingles is a bitch.
And it’s because of y’alls posts that I finally got my first Shingrix shot. I’d asked my doctor about it last year at my checkup, and he said it was in such demand they didn’t have any and to call about it in 3 months’ time. Of course I forgot.
The posts in here were a reminder, and I got my first one at Walgreens a few days after Sicks Ate made his post. The pharmacist warned me that a side effect of the shot could be a low-grade fever and chills, which did indeed happen about 12 hours after the shot. An Advil fixed that right up, and if that’s the worst the shot has to offer in comparison to the shingles, I am looking forward to the second shot in February.
Well, at least some good has come of this.
And I’m very sorry about suckitude that has visited you. Besides the pain, it’s not a small thing at all when your vision could potentially be affected.
I was hospitalized 9 years ago for shingles above the eye, as they were worried I’d lose my vision on that side. Got IV antivirals. Doc at the time said if it reaches the tip of your nose, it’s in your optic nerve, too. So follow up if it gets worse.
I need to ask about the vaccine again. It’s been impossible to find. My dad had shingles 3 times, so I’m interested in not following his lead.
googles when people should get the shingles vaccination
Ten more years for me. 
I’m getting it as soon as I’m old enough.
Uh, you can get vaccines without being in the recommended group, so long as you’re not on some sort of “banned” group.
Heck, I got tested for HPV in my ObGyn visit a couple of months back and if it came back negative, I’m asking for the vaccine (the results are waiting for me in my mailbox). It ain’t only for people under 16 or only for virgins, it’s for people who don’t have the virus.
Going though one of those phases where some web sites insist (politely at least) that I turn off my ad blocker before they’ll let me view the content on their site.
But I’m not using an ad blocker. I’m using plain-vanilla Google Chrome for my web browsing, with no add-ons installed. Don’t know if there was some recent Chrome update that makes web pages think I have an ad blocker installed or what, but it’s frustrating as hell, since there’s nothing I can turn off.
Also, I had shingles three years ago on the left side of my jaw, neck, and shoulder. Still dealing with the post-herpathigic (sp?) nerve issues from it – that part of the jaw and neck is numb, but itches like crazy unless I take gabapentin every 8 hours or so. Ugh. Shingles does really suck.
Good to know. I’ll ask my doctor next time I see him to see if I need to wait.
You can get them, but I was told by my insurance company that if you’re not in the recommended group, you also get to pay for it all by yourself.
In other words, check with your insurance company first to see if they’ll pay for it and then decide if it’s worth it to you. A few years back I was looking at getting the shingles vaccine and was told I was too young but I could get it if I were willing to pay about $300 or so for it, which I didn’t have to spare at the time.
ETA: American healthcare, thanks to the insurance industry, is a fucking nightmare and I wish we could nationalize it and have done.
As mentioned in OP we are building a fireplace (on the weekends). Yesterday went well except for the work table collapsing in the middle of a tile cut (the ledgestone tile and saw and me came out just fine, it was more the shock of it all, and resetting everything). Today we get ready to power through the rest of the stone layout and cuts and the saw is D.E.A.D. Not the circuit breaker (the pump on the wet saw still runs), not the switch (the pump on the wet saw still runs). So the saw itself is buggered (the brushes? bearings? (sounded a little rough when running). It is a rental and of course the rental shop is closed on Sundays and this is the only saw they have that can do edge mitres. Upshot is no fireplace before Xmas. Maybe before New Years.
Sure. Like Santa’s gonna make another trip once your chimney has a landing pad…
Try calling or walking into Walgreens on a Tuesday. Apparently if the store’s receiving any Shingrix, it arrives Tuesday morning. I got both of mine that way, each injection in a different US state.
All above the eye, still.
I’ll be seeing my GP this morning, and I’ll set up an appointment with an ophthalmologist shortly.
The good thing about living in Australia - I’ve already paid for my health care, with my taxes, so I don’t have much if any out of pocket to worry about. So far, about 35.00AUD for the course of anti-virals. If I still lived in the States, with the crappy insurance I had, I probably would have put off any treatment until it was too late.